How to add a Date Field to a Form?

[Anonymous]

We're trying to create a survey where people need to choose a date of an event. I tried to pick the "Date" option in the form, but it only displays a plain text; nothing about choosing a date. Can anyone help? 

Thanks, 

[SanfordWhiteman]

(And also, the people that originally posted in this thread may not even have active accounts anymore.)

[Anonymous]

Hi Alok,

I can't share it yet since it hasn't been published yet. It just doesn't make any sense to me why it wouldn't work. I might need to bump this issue to the Marketo Support team, see what they have to say. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Hello, was there any solution to your problem? Having the same issue.

[SanfordWhiteman]

Open a new thread, post a link to your form, etc.

Zombie threads already marked Correct​ aren't a good place for more info.

[Anonymous]

The answer marked as "correct" here is not really a confirmed solution to the problem. If you see it from the perspective of someone looking to fix a problem, it is very frustrating to read through 20 other threads with no solution. If i open as a new thread everyone will post "check out the other threads first!".

Anyway, in my case it seems to be a problem only in Firefox, the field sometimes shows with a date picker, sometimes not:

Termin vereinbaren - godesys AG

(its the first field).

In case anyone still reads this thread and has a solution, many thanks! I´ll follow up with support as well.

[SanfordWhiteman]

BTW I do know what's causing your issue and how to work around it. But again, please open a new thread so it can be properly indexed for later searches.

[Anonymous]

Fixed it by changing the URL in the form embed code to our custom subdomain. Not sure why that was an issue but it works fine now

[SanfordWhiteman]

If you test more you'll find that isn't the solution.

[SanfordWhiteman]

Not saying this thread holds a correct answer to your problem -- not at all, it's the opposite!

I'm saying posting on a closed thread doesn't make sense because this thread is not only 2 years old but cannot (due to technical restrictions of the Jive platform) ever be reopened. From the perspective of providing peer-to-peer support, there is no value from posting on a closed thread, on the same topic nor on another topic.

[Alok_Ramsisaria · Accepted solution]

Hi Itai,

Could you share the URL of the Landing Page where you have your form? It may be possible that calendar JS is conflicting with some other JS.

[Anonymous]

Thank you both. This is what I did: 
In field managment I created a new custom field and set it as "date." When I later chose it to insert to the form/survey I'm working on it shows only text, even though it says "date" in the "Field Type." What am i doing wrong? Thank you!

[Alok_Ramsisaria]

Hi,

If you selected a field named "Date" and it displays plain text, instead of a date picker - you can adjust the type of the field in form editor. If you select the type of field as "Date" - it'll allow you to "select" the dates. As Rajesh said, you could also have picked a custom field named "Date" - which proably doesn't has a type defined as Date. You may want to create a separate custom field and set it's type as Date.

Hope this helps!

[Anonymous]

Itai,

It sounds like "Date" is a custom field inside your Marketo instance? You'll need to create a custom Marketo date field or find an existing date field to store and ask for the info in a your desired format.